title: PMT's # 3400 - 3899

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection / Series 11: Artwork

content: Box 2 (Series 11), Folder 2

content: Archival materials

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

unittitle: Artwork

title: PMT's # 3400 - 3899


unitCode: ACAH

level: file

title: #67 Hitachi 51658005A 64Mbit (8Mb x 8) Dynamic RAM

label: Collection Creator

content: Integrated Circuit Engineering Corporation.

label: See more items in

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

indexedContent: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection / Series 19: Audio Visual Materials / 19.3: Compact Disks

label: Container

content: Box 6 (Series 19), Folder 2

label: Archival Repository

label: Type

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

label: Collection Citation

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

label: Collection Rights

label: Collection Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

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unittitle: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

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unittitle: Audio Visual Materials

type: Subseries

unittitle: Compact Disks

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title: Box 51, Folder 2, ICE Project Number 10114

indexedContent: Integrated Circuit Engineering Corporation.

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection / Series 16: Project Files / 16.1: Project Files (arranged by project number)

content: Box 51, Folder 2

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Project Files


title: 10782 Multiclient Study-IC Packaging

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

indexedContent: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection / Series 16: Project Files / 16.1: Project Files (arranged by project number)

content: Box 160

indexedContent: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

unittitle: 10782 Multiclient Study-IC Packaging

title: 10782 Multiclient Study-IC Packaging


title: RADC Product Evaluation Report PE 187: JAN Clas S Line Audit Sample Devices DG300AA/883 DG307AP/883; Siliconox (May 1980)

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection / Series 10: Government/Military

content: Box 2 (Series 10)

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Government/Military


title: ICE Folder Name: xerox consulting p/q#1632

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection / Series 16: Project Files / 16.1: Project Files (arranged by project number) / Box 21, Folder 17, ICE Project Number 904

content: Archival materials

label: Scope and Contents note

content: Content Summary: A review of PROM Requirements for the TAURUS COMPUTER (LSI chip (a PROM) and the alternative strategies developed to overcome problems)


title: Box 8, Folder 5, ICE Project Number 517

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

content: Box 8 (Series 16), Folder 5

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Project Files (arranged by project number)

unittitle: Box 8, Folder 5, ICE Project Number 517

title: Box 8, Folder 5, ICE Project Number 517


title: May 1977

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

indexedContent: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection / Series 10: Government/Military

content: Box 1 (Series 10)

content: Archival materials

content: Contents: RADC Product Evaluation Report- PE 38 Pre-audit Evaluation of Raytheon 38510/10101 AGC & 91S/54LS21J Devices

title: May 1977


title: ICE Folder Name: NCR v. McDonnell Douglas, 08/04/1976

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection / Series 17: Litigation / ICE Project Number 10206

content: Archival materials

content: Contents: 201000-040 Spence's Notes; Copies of IEEE Journal

unittitle: Litigation

unittitle: ICE Project Number 10206


title: Box 12, Folder 8, ICE Project Number 643C

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

content: Box 12 (Series 16), Folder 8

content: Archival materials

content: Content Summary: "Periodic report-Semiconductor & integrated circuit" late 1971-72


title: ICE Folder Name: NASA

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection / Series 16: Project Files / 16.1: Project Files (arranged by project number) / Box 94, Folder 9, ICE Project Number 10307a

content: Archival materials

content: Content Summary: Federal Emission Control Requirements

unittitle: ICE Folder Name: NASA

title: ICE Folder Name: NASA


title: Box 24, Folder 9, ICE Project Number 974

content: I.C.E. Integrated Circuit Collection

content: Box 24 (Series 16), Folder 9

content: Archival materials


title: Williams, Andy

label: Series Creator

content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997

indexedContent: DeVincent, Sam

content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 11: Entertainment / 11.18: Ephemera / 11.4: Male Singers - Individuals

content: Archival materials

label: Series Citation

content: The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

label: Series Rights

label: Series Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Ephemera

unittitle: Male Singers - Individuals

unittitle: Williams, Andy

title: Williams, Andy


title: Cantor, Eddie

content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997

indexedContent: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 11: Entertainment / 11.18: Ephemera / 11.4: Male Singers - Individuals

content: Archival materials

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Cantor, Eddie

title: Cantor, Eddie


title: Two articles regarding David C. Rockola and one advertisement for Rockola brand jukeboxes.

content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997

content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 11: Entertainment / 11.18: Ephemera / Series 11.12: Jukebox, Nickelodeon

content: Box 43 (Ephemera)

content: Archival materials

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Jukebox, Nickelodeon


title: IGRA University Academy of Rodeo Arts

content: International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) Collection / Series 2: International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) Rodeos, Conventions, Dance Contests, and Ephemera / 2.3: Other Events and Ephemera

label: Date

content: Box 5, Folder 35

content: Archival materials

content: International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Other Events and Ephemera

unittitle: IGRA University Academy of Rodeo Arts

title: IGRA University Academy of Rodeo Arts


title: 11th Annual IGRA National Rodeo Convention and Country Western Dance Finals (Chicago, Illinois)

content: International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) Collection / Series 2: International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) Rodeos, Conventions, Dance Contests, and Ephemera / 2.2: IGRA Conventions and Dance Contests

content: Box 5, Folder 4

content: Archival materials

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: IGRA Conventions and Dance Contests


title: IGRA International Gay Rodeo Finals (Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Laughlin, Nevada) posters

content: International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) Collection / Series 2: International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) Rodeos, Conventions, Dance Contests, and Ephemera / 2.1: IGRA International Gay Finals Rodeo

content: Box 7, Folder 15

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: IGRA International Gay Finals Rodeo


title: Entry forms, advertising, ephemera

content: International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) Collection / Series 1: Member Associations / 1.29: Texas Gay Rodeo Association (TGRA)

content: 1986, undated

content: Box 4, Folder 9

content: Archival materials

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Member Associations

unittitle: Texas Gay Rodeo Association (TGRA)

unittitle: Entry forms, advertising, ephemera

title: Entry forms, advertising, ephemera


level: item

title: "'A Hunting We Will Go--Tupperware Home Parties'" 33-1/3 rpm record

content: Damigella, Ann.

indexedContent: Damigella, Ann.

content: Damigella, Thomas

indexedContent: Damigella, Thomas

content: Ann and Thomas Damigella Collection

indexedContent: Ann and Thomas Damigella Collection

content: Ann and Thomas Damigella Collection / Series 6: Sound Recordings

flag: datechar:creation era:ce type:inclusive

content: Box 2, Folder 8

content: Box 4 (RV), Cassette RTC583.2

content: Archival materials

content: Audio

indexedContent: Audio

content: Ann and Thomas Damigella Collection, 1951-1997, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Most items have copyright and/or trademark restrictions. Tupperware films: Most duplication and use of films in commercial and non-commercial productions requires written permission from the Tupperware Corporation. See repository for details.

content: Collection is open for research but the fils are stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Ann and Thomas Damigella Collection

unittitle: Sound Recordings

type: Item


title: Kirsch, Russell

content: Blanch, Gertrude

indexedContent: Blanch, Gertrude

content: Bloch, Richard M.

indexedContent: Bloch, Richard M.

content: Bradburn, James

indexedContent: Bradburn, James

content: Brainerd, John G.

indexedContent: Brainerd, John G.

content: Brown, George W.

indexedContent: Brown, George W.

content: Brown, Gordon S.

indexedContent: Brown, Gordon S.

content: Buchholz, Werner

indexedContent: Buchholz, Werner

content: Burns, Robert

indexedContent: Burns, Robert

content: Atanasoff, John V.

indexedContent: Atanasoff, John V.

content: Atchison, William

indexedContent: Atchison, William

content: Auerbach, Issac

indexedContent: Auerbach, Issac

content: Bartik, Jean

indexedContent: Bartik, Jean

content: Bauer, William

indexedContent: Bauer, William

content: Beek, Allan

indexedContent: Beek, Allan

content: Bernstein, Mort

indexedContent: Bernstein, Mort

content: Bigelow, Julian

indexedContent: Bigelow, Julian

content: Coleman

indexedContent: Coleman

content: Cohen, I. Bernhard

indexedContent: Cohen, I. Bernhard

content: Computer History Forum.

indexedContent: Computer History Forum.

content: COT Meeting.

indexedContent: COT Meeting.

content: Coombs, John

indexedContent: Coombs, John

content: Crawford, Perry O.

indexedContent: Crawford, Perry O.

content: Couret, Lynn

indexedContent: Couret, Lynn

content: Campbell, Robert V.

indexedContent: Campbell, Robert V.

content: Campaigne, Howard

indexedContent: Campaigne, Howard

content: Cannon, Edward

indexedContent: Cannon, Edward

content: Canning, R.G.

indexedContent: Canning, R.G.

content: Clem, Mary

indexedContent: Clem, Mary

content: Cass, James

indexedContent: Cass, James

content: CODASYL Meeting.

indexedContent: CODASYL Meeting.

content: Clippinger, Richard F.

indexedContent: Clippinger, Richard F.

content: MIT Club Talks (Brown & Wiener).

indexedContent: MIT Club Talks (Brown & Wiener).

content: Andrews, Ernest G.

indexedContent: Andrews, Ernest G.

content: American Federation of Information Processing Societies

content: Alt, Franz

indexedContent: Alt, Franz

content: Alrich, John

indexedContent: Alrich, John

content: Association for Computing Machinery.

indexedContent: Association for Computing Machinery.

content: Association for Computing Machinery.

content: Argonne National Laboratories R.

indexedContent: Argonne National Laboratories R.

content: Allard, Gerry

indexedContent: Allard, Gerry

content: Aiken, Howard

indexedContent: Aiken, Howard

content: Adams, Charles

indexedContent: Adams, Charles

content: Acton, Forman

indexedContent: Acton, Forman

content: Halstead, Maurice H.

indexedContent: Halstead, Maurice H.

content: Harmon, Leon

indexedContent: Harmon, Leon

content: Harvey, Samuel

indexedContent: Harvey, Samuel

content: Hazen, Dean Harold

indexedContent: Hazen, Dean Harold

content: Gruenberger, Fred

indexedContent: Gruenberger, Fred

content: Gunning, William

indexedContent: Gunning, William

content: Hagen, Glenn E.

content: Hall, W.

content: Greenwald, Irwin

content: Greenwarld, Sidney

content: Griswold, Ralph E.

content: Grosch, Herbert R. J.

content: Goheen, Harry E.

content: Good, I.J.

content: Goteib, C.C.

content: Granholm, Jackson

content: Israel, David R.

content: Huskey, Harry D.

content: Kates, Josef

content: Juncosa, Mario

content: Householder, Alston S.

content: Horwitz, Bernhard R.

content: Hurd, Cuthbert R.

content: Howard, Bernard

content: Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992

content: Holbrook, Bernard

content: Horner, Joseph

content: Horn, Robert J.

content: Herold, Henry

content: Herget, Paul

content: Holberton, Betty

content: Hertz, Ted

content: Elkins, Harold

content: Estrin, Gerald

content: Edwards, Walt

content: Elbourn, Robert

content: Eckert, J. Presper (John Presper), 1919-1995

content: Eddy, Robert Philip

content: Downey, William

content: Eckdahl, Donald

content: Dodd, Stephen

content: Dotts, Richard D.

content: Dietzhold, Robert

content: Dimsdale, Bernard

content: Desch, Joseph

content: Dickinson, Arthur H.

content: Curtiss, John H.

content: Dederick, Louis S.

content: Glazer, T.

content: Givens, Wallace

content: Gill, Stanley

content: Geisler, Murray

content: Garrison, Ken

content: Frankel, Stanley

content: Forrester, Jay W.

content: Forrest, Cameron B.

content: Forbes, George

content: Fenaughty, Alfred L.

content: Fein, Louis

content: Feign, David

content: Farrand, William R.

content: Fall Joint Computer Conference, 12/6/72.

content: Fall Joint Computer Conference, 11/17/71.

content: Everett, Robert

content: Nelson, Eldred

content: Neisius, Vincent

content: Northrop, John

content: Neovius, G.

content: Parker, R.D.

content: Palevsky, Max

content: Phelps, Byron R.

content: Patrick, Robert

content: Pickrell, D.

content: Phister, Montgomery

content: Pollmyer, R.

content: Polachek, Harry

content: Quady, Emmett

content: Postley, John A. R.

content: Rajchman, Jan

content: Ream, Norman

content: Reed, Irving S.

content: Rees, Mina

content: Rhodes, Ida

content: Rice, Rex

content: Rochester, Nathaniel

content: Rogers, Jim

content: Rogers, Stanley

content: Rosenberg, Milton

content: Rosenthal, Paul R.

content: Rubinoff, Morris R.

content: Salzer, John M.

content: Samuel, Arthur L. R.

content: Sarkissian, Harold

content: Schuette, Roger

content: Serrell, Robert R.

content: King, Paul

content: Kilpatrick, Lester

content: Killian, James

content: Kaufold, Leroy R.

content: Lanzarotta, Sandy R.

content: Kreuder, Norman L.

content: Korn, Irving

content: Kirsch, Russell

content: Lovell, Clarence A.

content: Lehmer, Derrick H.

content: Legvold, Sam

content: Larson, Harry

content: Martin, Richard R.

content: Marden, Ethel

content: Madden, Don R.

content: Lowe, John

content: McPherson, John C.

content: Mendelson, Jerry

content: Mason, Daniel R.

content: Mauchly, John R.

content: Michel, J.G.L. R.

content: Miller, Frederick G.

content: Menzel, Donald H.

content: Metropolis, Nicholas C.

content: Mitchell, Joel

content: MITRE Meeting.

content: Mills, Roger L.

content: Morton, Paul

content: Mumford, Louis

content: Mock, Owen

content: Morse, Philip B.

content: Wilkinson, James H. R.

content: Wilkes, Maurice R.

content: Wizenbaum, Joe

content: Williams, Charles

content: Wieselman, Irving

content: Wiener, Robert

content: Wild, Arthur

content: Wieser, C. Robert

content: Wrench, John W. R.

content: Woodger, Michael

content: Yowell, E.C. R.

content: Youtz, Pat

content: Woo, Way Dong

content: Wolfe, Philip

content: Woodbury, William R.

content: Wood, Ben D.

content: Zemanek, Heinz

content: Zuse, Konrad

content: Smagorinsky, Joseph

content: Slutz, Ralph R.

content: Skramstad, Harold R.

content: Skillman, Sherwood R.

content: SIAM/SIGNUM Meeting.

content: SHARE XXXVIII.

content: SHARE Meeting for Pioneers.

content: Taylor, Norman

content: Tanaka, David

content: Strong, Jack

content: Stibitz, George

content: Steele, Floyd G. R.

content: Sprague, Richard E.

content: Snyder, Samuel

content: Smith, Charles V.L.

content: TV Program KQED.

content: Uncapher, Keith

content: Torfeh, Mark

content: Travis, Irven

content: Todd-Tausskky, Olga

content: Tomash, Erwin

content: Toben, Gregory

content: Todd, John

content: Wheeler, R.J.

content: Whirlwind Discussion.

content: Ware, Willis H.

content: Wegstein, Joseph Henry

content: Wagner, Frank

content: Wang, An R.

content: von Hippel, Arthur

content: von Neumann, John

content: Armer, Paul, 1924- (computer technician)

content: Rabinow, Jacob, 1910-

content: Computer Oral History Collection

content: Computer Oral History Collection / Series 1: Transcripts / 1.2: Research Transcripts

content: Online transcripts for select oral history interviews were made possible by the Morton I. Bernstein Fund and the Association for Computing Machinery, the Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), and the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN).

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1970-10-08/1970-10-08 type:inclusive

content: Box 12 (Series 1), Folder 11

content: Archival materials

content: Computer Oral History Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

content: Collection is open for research but original audio tapes and videotapes are stored off-site. Reference copies do not exist for all of the audiovisual materials. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

title: Kirsch, Russell


level: collection

title: AT&T/Bell Film Collection

label: Creator

content: American Telephone and Telegraph Company

content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Information, Technology and Society

label: Topic

content: Industrial safety

indexedContent: Industrial safety

content: Lasers

indexedContent: Lasers

content: Satellites

indexedContent: Satellites

content: Sound film

indexedContent: Sound film

content: telephone

indexedContent: telephone

content: Transistors

indexedContent: Transistors

label: Provenance

content: Collection donated by Division of Information, Technology and Society, National Museum of American History.

content: AT&T/Bell Film Collection

indexedContent: AT&T/Bell Film Collection

label: Extent

content: 39 Items

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1942/1978 type:inclusive

label: Custodial History

content: These films, along with numerous others which were dispersed to different collections, were transferred to the Archives Center by the Division of Information, Technology and Society (now Division of Medicine and Science) in 1999.

label: Identifier

content: Collection descriptions

indexedContent: Collection descriptions

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Motion pictures (visual works)

indexedContent: Motion pictures (visual works)

content: Training films

indexedContent: Training films

label: Citation

content: AT&T/Bell Film Collection, 1942-1978, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

label: Arrangement

content:
4 series:

Series 1, Promotional Films, 1942-1978

Series 2, Scientific/Educational Films, 1955-1970

Series 3, Corporate/Technical Training Films, 1956-1970

Series 4, Acquired Films, 1960-1962

label: Rights

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

label: Genre/Form

content: Motion pictures (visual works)

content: Training films

content: Thirty-nine 16mm films on various subjects relating to telephone systems and communications, such as pole worker safety; party line etiquette; the transition from silent film to sound film; and the application of satellites, lasers and transistors to sound communication.

label: Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research.

content: Researchers must view videotape copies.

unitid: Collection NMAH.AC.0684

unittitle: AT&T/Bell Film Collection

title: AT&T/Bell Film Collection


title: Niigata City, Japan, honorary citizenship

label: Collection Creator

content: Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1914-2004

indexedContent: Boatwright, Ruth Ellington

label: See more items in

content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials / Series 5: Awards and Recognition

label: Sponsor

content: Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

label: Container

content: Box 13, Folder 3

label: Archival Repository

label: Type

content: Archival materials

label: Collection Citation

content: Ruth Ellington Collection, 1923-1992, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

label: Collection Rights

content: Collection items available for reproduction. Copyright restrictions exist. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

label: Collection Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Awards and Recognition


title: MAN WITH FOUR SIDES

content: Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1914-2004

content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials / Series 1: Music Manuscripts, Scripts, and Compositional Materials / 1.1: Music Manuscripts

content: Box 15, Folder 9

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Music Manuscripts

unittitle: MAN WITH FOUR SIDES

title: MAN WITH FOUR SIDES


title: "Sound, Shape, and Symbol" textbook

content: Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1914-2004

content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials / Series 9: Other Artists

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1976/1976 type:inclusive

label: Date

content: Box 57, Folder 21

indexedContent: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Other Artists

unittitle: "Sound, Shape, and Symbol" textbook

title: "Sound, Shape, and Symbol" textbook


level: series

title: Satin Doll for Hamms Beer (B. Weed, P. Dean)

content: Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1914-2004

content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials / Series 11: Audiovisual Materials / 11.1: Sound Recordings / 11.1.6: Miscellaneous

content: undated

content: Box 27, Folder 130

content: Archival materials

label: Subseries Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research. Only reference copies may be used.

unittitle: Audiovisual Materials

unittitle: Miscellaneous


title: 318949.0785 Female, wearing light patterned dress, seated on adjustable chair in front of gridded background.

label: General note

content: Card Number: 12

content: Category: betterment

content: Copy negative: 94-3442

content: Information on photo: D47

content: Perkins, James Secor

indexedContent: Perkins, James Secor

content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924

indexedContent: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker

content: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972

indexedContent: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection

indexedContent: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection / Series 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) / 318949.0621 to 318949.0840

content: Digitization of Series 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) was made possible by Andrew and Anya Shiva.

content: undated

content: Box 6

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

indexedContent: Negatives

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

label: Series Restrictions

content: Series 2: Glass Stereo Slides are restricted. The glass stereo slides in boxes 3-9 were digitized in 2021. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection

unittitle: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive)


title: 318949.1179 Storage bins of wire or cable coils, with tags in front.

content: Category: storage old and new

content: Copy negative: 99-30269

content: Gilbreth image: 340

content: Perkins, James Secor

content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924

content: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection / Series 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) / 318949.1158 to 318949.1238

content: Dec. 18, 1914

content: Box 8

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives


title: 318949.0360 Detail of mechanical device, sitting on a gridded table in front of a gridded background. Ruler include in photograph to give vertical and horizontal dimensions.

content: Card Number: 86

content: Category: business and apparatus of motion study

content: Copy negative: 92-16557

content: Perkins, James Secor

content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924

content: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection / Series 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) / 2.2: 318949.0181 to 318949.0380

content: undated

content: Box 4

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.


title: 318949.0607 Large room with much unidentified machinery visible.

content: Card Number: 39

content: Category: misc.- pure cyclegraphs or unidentified study

content: Copy negative: 93-9600

content: Information on photo: 200034

content: Perkins, James Secor

content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924

content: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection / Series 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) / 318949.0381 to 318949.0620

content: undated

content: Box 5

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives


title: 318949.0792 Seated male with feet on curved support in front of gridded background.

content: Card Number: 20

content: Category: betterment

content: Copy negative: 94-3451

content: Gilbreth image: 17756

content: Information on photo: 17756

content: Perkins, James Secor

content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924

content: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection

indexedContent: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection / Series 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) / 318949.0621 to 318949.0840

content: undated

content: Box 6

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives


title: 318949.0283 Male sitting at large gridded drafting style table. F.W. Talyor card filer (flying machine).

content: Card Number: 128

content: Category: office study

content: Copy negative: 81-5450

content: Information in photo: 4109 III

content: Perkins, James Secor

content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924

content: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972

content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection

indexedContent: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection / Series 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) / 2.2: 318949.0181 to 318949.0380

content: undated

content: Box 4

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives


title: 4-13, Coxe Estate, Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroad, model locomotive #3. No neg number.  with model locomotive #3 on tracks in wooded area

content: Coxe Brothers and Company, Inc. (Drifton, Pennsylvania)

label: Collection Collector

content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology

content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry

content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Extractive Industries

content: Coxe Brothers Collection

indexedContent: Coxe Brothers Collection

content: Coxe Brothers Collection / Series 5: Glass Plate Negatives and Photographs / 5.1: Glass Plate Negatives

content: Box 33

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

content: Coxe Brothers Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

unittitle: Coxe Brothers Collection

unittitle: Glass Plate Negatives and Photographs

unittitle: Glass Plate Negatives


title: Elssler, Fanny

label: Series Creator

content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997

indexedContent: DeVincent, Sam

content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 18: Dance / 18.2: Ballroom Dancers and Dance Institute

label: Extent

content: 10 Items

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1840/1840 type:inclusive

content: 1840, undated

content: Box 3, Folder B

content: Archival materials

label: Series Citation

content: The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

label: Series Rights

label: Scope and Contents note

content: Covers have either Elssler's name or image. Includes: "Cracovienne Dance" and "Par Styrien."

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Ballroom Dancers and Dance Institute

unittitle: Elssler, Fanny

title: Elssler, Fanny


title: Schottische, Multiple Editions

content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997

label: See more items in

content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 18: Dance / 18.16: Schottische

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1850/1933 type:inclusive

content: 1850-1933, undated

content: Box 23, Folder I-L

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Schottische

unittitle: Schottische, Multiple Editions

title: Schottische, Multiple Editions


title: Mott, J.L., Iron Works, New York, New York

content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969

indexedContent: Warshaw, Isadore

content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Baths and Bathing / 1: Manufacturers and Distributors

label: Sponsor

content: Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).

label: Container

content: Box 1, Folder 26

content: Archival materials

content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Baths and Bathing, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

label: Scope and Contents

content: Modern Plumbing Catalogue, 1898

content: Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.

unittitle: Manufacturers and Distributors


title: Master Brewers Association of America (MBAA), Communications Newsletter

label: Collection Creator

content: Voigt, Walter H.

indexedContent: Voigt, Walter H.

content: Walter H. Voigt Brewing Industry Collection / Series 4: Organizations

content: 1961 January/February-November/December

content: Box 5, Folder 32

label: Archival Repository

label: Type

content: Archival materials

label: Collection Citation

content: Walter H. Voigt Brewing Industry Collection, 1891-1979, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Organizations


title: Business cards

content: Voigt, Walter H.

content: Walter H. Voigt Brewing Industry Collection / Series 2: Beer Industry / 2.1: Technical Information

label: Date

content: undated

content: Box 2, Folder 25

content: Archival materials

label: Collection Rights

label: Collection Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Beer Industry

unittitle: Technical Information

unittitle: Business cards

title: Business cards


title: Alvin and the Chipmunks, undated -The Komedy Kids, undated

content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life

content: Erol's Video Club.

indexedContent: Erol's Video Club.

content: Video Press Kits Collection

indexedContent: Video Press Kits Collection

content: Video Press Kits Collection / Series 2: Children

content: Box 67, Folder 1-91

content: Archival materials

content: Video Press Kit Collection, 1935-1993, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Reproduction permission from Archives Center: fees for commercial use. Standard copyright restrictions apply to all copyrighted material.

content: Collection is open for research but boxes 1-83 are stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Video Press Kits Collection

unittitle: Children


title: 20.3, Newsboys and Newsgirls

content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997

content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 20: Newspapers / 20.6: Ephemera

content: 2 Items

content: Box 67, Folder A

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

label: Series Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Ephemera

unittitle: 20.3, Newsboys and Newsgirls

title: 20.3, Newsboys and Newsgirls


title: U.P Station, Cheyenne, Wyoming

content: Archives Center Lantern Slide Collection / Series 1: Lantern Slides

content: Box 2, Item 30

content: Archival materials

content: Photographs

indexedContent: Photographs

content: Archives Center Lantern Slide Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Probably public domain, copyrights expired. Fees for commercial reproduction.

content: Collection is open for research and access on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.

unittitle: Lantern Slides

unittitle: U.P Station, Cheyenne, Wyoming

title: U.P Station, Cheyenne, Wyoming


title: New York office correspondence with Parke, Davis and Co. re: buying catgut, silkworm gut and kangaroo tendons, 1899

label: Collection Author

content: Parke, Davis Company

indexedContent: Parke, Davis Company

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 13: Addenda

content: Box 414, Folder 47

content: Archival materials

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Addenda


title: Schornak, , Tetanus

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 6: Notebooks / 6.2: Individual Laboratory Notebooks

flag: datechar:creation type:inclusive

content: Box 149 (Subseries 6.2), Folder 5

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Notebooks

unittitle: Individual Laboratory Notebooks

unittitle: Schornak, , Tetanus

title: Schornak, , Tetanus


title: Hjort, A.M., North, H.B.,

content: Parke, Davis Company

indexedContent: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 6: Notebooks / 6.2: Individual Laboratory Notebooks

content: Box 109 (Subseries 6.2), Folder 4-5

indexedContent: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

unittitle: Hjort, A.M., North, H.B.,

title: Hjort, A.M., North, H.B.,


title: Paul Burkholder Studies of Vitamin BC produced by microorganisms, 1945

content: Parke, Davis Company

indexedContent: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 13: Addenda

content: Box 409, Folder 56

content: Archival materials


title: Rowe, L.W.,

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records.

content: Box 139 (Subseries 6.2), Folder 2-3

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Rowe, L.W.,

title: Rowe, L.W.,


title: American Cleaning Equipment Corp., vacuum cleaners, PD 35766

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 9: Equipment Data Files

content: Box 364, Folder 12

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Equipment Data Files


title: Specialties, R

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 7: Control Department Records

content: Box 326, Folder 12

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Control Department Records

unittitle: Specialties, R

title: Specialties, R


title: Thompson, Paul E., Reinertson, J.W., McCarthy, D.A., Bayles, Anita, Project No. 10467

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 10: Publications / Series 10.5: Miscellaneous Reports and Manuals

content: Box 165 (Subseries 10.5), Folder 11

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Publications

unittitle: Miscellaneous Reports and Manuals


title: Laboratory Notes Index

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 10: Publications / 10.4: Books

content: Box 251, Box 3

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Books

unittitle: Laboratory Notes Index

title: Laboratory Notes Index


title: Private Rx file, L

content: Parke, Davis Company

indexedContent: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 7: Control Department Records

content: Box 309, Folder 4

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Private Rx file, L

title: Private Rx file, L


title: Tablet Making

content: Parke, Davis Company

indexedContent: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 10: Publications / 10.4: Books

content: Box 251, Box 1

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Tablet Making

title: Tablet Making


title: IBM

content: Parke, Davis Company

indexedContent: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 9: Equipment Data Files

content: Box 372, Folder 3

content: Archival materials

unittitle: IBM

title: IBM


title: Elixirs, Wines, Syrups, C

content: Parke, Davis Company

indexedContent: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records.

content: Box 292, Folder 20

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Elixirs, Wines, Syrups, C

title: Elixirs, Wines, Syrups, C


title: Specialties, I

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Box 325, Folder 10

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records.

unittitle: Specialties, I

title: Specialties, I


title: Vulcan Copper and Supply, condenser, PD 27857

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Box 338, Folder 26

content: Archival materials


title: Death takes Dr. Gray. The Firing Line. (Biographical sketch)  Page 9, November 1961

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Box 401, Folder 39

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Addenda


title: American Air Filter Company, dust collector, PD 42946

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Box 339, Folder 17

content: Archival materials


title: Interview with Henry Devlin. By Dr. Moore and Miss Losie

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Box 401, Folder 22

content: Archival materials


title: Clarke Co., floor scrubber, PD 47582, PD 47583

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Box 366, Folder 8

content: Archival materials


title: Pottsville Republican(Pottsville, Pennsylvania)

content: Lockwood Greene Engineers, Incorporated

indexedContent: Lockwood Greene Engineers, Incorporated

content: Lockwood-Greene Company

indexedContent: Lockwood-Greene Company

content: Whitman, David

indexedContent: Whitman, David

content: Greene, Stephen

indexedContent: Greene, Stephen

content: Lockwood, Amos

indexedContent: Lockwood, Amos

content: Lockwood-Greene Records

indexedContent: Lockwood-Greene Records

content: Lockwood-Greene Records / Series 2: Photographs and Slides / 2.1: Photo albums

content: Preservation of this collection was made possible in part by a generous gift from CH2M HILL.

content: Box 85

content: Archival materials

content: Lockwood Greene Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

unittitle: Lockwood-Greene Records

unittitle: Photographs and Slides

unittitle: Photo albums


title: US 1,474,911 (elevator equalizer) correspondence and sketches

content: Pratt, Charles Richardson, 1860-1935

indexedContent: Pratt, Charles Richardson

content: Charles Richardson Pratt Papers

indexedContent: Charles Richardson Pratt Papers

content: Charles Richardson Pratt Papers / Series 5: Inventions

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1921/1922 type:inclusive

content: 1921 - 1922

content: Box 8, Folder 6

content: Archival materials

content: Charles Richardson Pratt Papers, 1860-1935, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

unittitle: Charles Richardson Pratt Papers

unittitle: Inventions


title: Machine Part

content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering

content: Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of

content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry

content: Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives / Series 5: Machinery

content: undated

content: Box 4, Item 8

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Negatives

indexedContent: Negatives

content: Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, 1915-1980s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.

unittitle: Machinery

unittitle: Machine Part

title: Machine Part


title: First prize garden at No. 203 Mine

label: Collection Donor

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

indexedContent: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

label: Collection Manufacturer

content: Consolidation Coal Company

indexedContent: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

indexedContent: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.19: #2537-#2843

content: Digitization of Series 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives was made possible by Andrew and Anya Shiva.

content: Box 89, Item 2759

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Photographs

unittitle: Glass Plate and Film Negatives

unittitle: First prize garden at No. 203 Mine

title: First prize garden at No. 203 Mine


title: Tipple, No. 201 Mine

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.4: #0460-#0677

content: Box 74, Item 472

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: Tipple, No. 201 Mine

title: Tipple, No. 201 Mine


title: Diary

content: Craton, Forman H., 1902-1983

indexedContent: Craton, Forman H.

content: Forman H. Craton Papers

indexedContent: Forman H. Craton Papers

content: Forman H. Craton Papers / Series 1: Memoirs

content: Digitization of this collection was made possible by Andrew and Anya Shiva.

content: Box 12, Folder 2

content: Archival materials

content: Forman H. Craton Collection, 1902-1983, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Forman H. Craton Papers

unittitle: Memoirs

unittitle: Diary

title: Diary


title: Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

label: Series Creator

content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969

indexedContent: Warshaw, Isadore

content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Beer / 2: Companies

content: Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).

content: Box 3, Folder 14-17

content: Oversize 83, Folder 1

content: Oversize 7, Folder 8

content: Archival materials

label: Series Citation

content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Beer, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

label: Series Rights

content: Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.

unittitle: Companies


title: Black family standing against house

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

label: See more items in

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.13: #1569-#1659

label: Sponsor

content: circa 1917

content: Box 83, Item 1630

indexedContent: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: Black family standing against house

title: Black family standing against house


title: New hotel, Tom Biggs Branch, McRoberts, Kentucky

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.7: #0882-#0998

label: Container

content: Box 77, Item 905

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives


title: Garden behind house

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.14: #1660-#1764

content: circa 1918

content: Box 84, Item 1679

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: Garden behind house

title: Garden behind house


title: McRoberts, Kentucky, looking down

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.5: #0678-#0786

content: Digitization of Series 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives was made possible by Andrew and Anya Shiva.

content: undated

content: Box 75, Item 740

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: McRoberts, Kentucky, looking down

title: McRoberts, Kentucky, looking down


title: Group of women sitting on steps of building

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.28: Miscellaneous / Groups Scenes

content: circa 1920s

content: Box 95

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

unittitle: Miscellaneous

unittitle: Groups Scenes


title: Forman H. Craton Papers

label: Creator

content: Craton, Forman H., 1902-1983

label: Names

content: General Electric Company

indexedContent: General Electric Company

label: Topic

content: Electrical engineers

indexedContent: Electrical engineers

content: Electric engineering -- 20th century

indexedContent: Electric engineering

label: Provenance

content: Gift to Smithsonian from Mrs. Willette Craton, October 9, 1992

content: Craton, Forman H., 1902-1983

content: Forman H. Craton Papers

label: Summary

content: Diaries and memoirs, profusely illustrated with photographs and other mementos, which describe Craton's life, education and work experience as an engineer at General Electric in minute detail, and include his comments on the culture, current events and politics of the times; and correspondence, mostly letters from Craton to his wife and to his mother.

label: Biographical / Historical

content:
Childhood and Youth

Forman Craton, an only child, was born on June 23, 1902 in Syracuse, New York. His mother, Annie Fairbanks Hutchison was the granddaughter of General Orrin Hutchison, a man of some prominence in Onondaga County, New York. His father, Dr. Samuel Boyce Craton, was the great grandson of Joshua Forman, the founder of Syracuse, New York. Dr. Forman earned his medical degree at Syracuse University and became an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. Somewhat later he confined his practice to diseases of the eye.

Mr. Craton's memoirs recount several unpleasant memories of a dark, gloomy house on McClennan Ave. in Syracuse where he spent his earliest years. Among them were the death of a brother who was a "blue" baby, a series of colds, coughs, sore throats and other respiratory complaints, getting sick on street cars, fear of dogs, and fear of being banished from home for misbehavior.

About April 1, 1908 the family moved to 326 Highland Ave., a socially better neighborhood where they spent the next 7 years which are described by Mr. Craton as among the happiest in his life. The long winters offered a multitude of winter activities for children. They built snowmen, snow forts, snow houses. There were few cars so the streets were not cleared and youngsters went sledding and tobogganing on nearby hills. The tennis court at the Sedgwick Farm Club was flooded for skating and hockey. Indoors the children played "house" with appropriate rearrangement of the furniture or hide-and-seek in houses with large attics. In good weather, hopscotch, baseball and football took over along with climbing trees and riding bicycles.

Burten Holmes' travel pictures, special movies such as "Birth of a Nation" and later Jack London's "The Sea Wolf" as well as books and records were part of the cultural scene. Magazines too, "St. Nicholas", "Boys' Life" and "American Boy" were available. At his mother's instigation young Craton began a stamp collection.

Most of the neighborhood families, including his, belonged to the Sedgwick Farm Club, two and a half blocks from his house. It had large rooms, bowling alleys, a squash court, tennis courts, a children's playground. Dancing school which he attended was held at the club once a week. He also attended Sunday School regularly.

After one term at a private school young Craton transferred to Lincoln, the neighborhood public school, where he finished the 8 grades in 6 years. In summarizing his early years Mr. Craton remarked on the varied backgrounds of his school friends and the fact that rich and poor children mixed well and played together. He mentioned being conscious of class distinctions as early as 1912 and this awareness reappears throughout his life.

The comfortable life of young Forman's early years changed abruptly with the untimely death of his father, Dr. Craton, on February 26, 1915. The family income dropped from $10,000 to $12,000 annually, a very good one for that period, to about $1,500 a year from his father's estate. Shortly after his father's death the boy and his mother moved to 410 Douglas St. It was a "nice flat" but the lad was aware that the neighborhood was not as good as Highland St. Forman gradually lost touch with his old playmates (his mother resigned from the Sedgwick Farm Club to save money) and the boy soon became part of the Douglas St. crowd.

The young Forman began his high school days at North High School. Two of the city's characteristics were important to him during this period. The NY Central R.R. ran through downtown Syracuse and watching the trains was a fascinating pastime. The Erie Canal on which boats were hauled by horse through the city competed with the NY Central for by his attention. Although too slight for competitive sports he was an enthusiastic fan of the football and baseball teams at school. His lone outside activity at school was dramatics.

Work experience during his high school years included several one or two day-at-a-time jobs shoveling snow for the NY Central, laboring work at a steel company, tips for errands at the State Fair, and Christmas clerking at a men's store. His first full time job was as gardener for the Calthop sisters during the summer of 1919, at 20¢ an hour. In the fall of 1919 he got a job working after school and on Saturdays at Bardeen's, a book publishing company. The summer before university he was a machinist's helper at Solrag Process Co. That summer he and his mother moved to a flat at 205 Waverly Ave, a block from Syracuse University where he enrolled in the fall.

To his bitter disappointment the young man was not asked to join Phi Delta Theta, his father's fraternity and this caused great unhappiness in his early days at the university. Because of the necessity to be practical about earning a living for himself and his mother he put aside his interest in writing and cartooning, and majored in mechanical engineering. He excelled in his college work, and was invited to join several honorary fraternities in engineering and mathematics. He made a number of friends both male and female and in spite of his early bitterness over his rejection by his father's fraternity had a satisfying college career. After intercession by a friend of his father's about which Forman later wrote that he was ashamed, he received and accepted a bid from Phi Delta Theta in the middle of his college years.

In August 1923 the Cratons vacationed at Star Island, in the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, where young Forman quickly became friends with Willette Flitschner, from Louisville, KY. whom he would marry in a few years.

Young Manhood

During his final year at college an interview with Mr. George Pfeiff who was recruiting for a new course in Factory Management at the General Electric Co. led to a job offer in Schenectady, NY. After some soul searching about leaving his mother in Syracuse he left for the job at General Electric in Schenectady. His career at General Electric lasted 38 years.

Homesickness was a serious problem as Forman Craton began his career with the company. With the exception of vacations he had spent all of his young life, including his college years, in Syracuse. He went directly from a vacation at Star Island where Willette was also vacationing to a plant employing 22,000 people in a city in which he was a stranger. His proclivity for introspection, always strong, and his sensitivity to people and his surroundings are clearly evident in his letters to his mother and to Willie in August and September, and recur frequently throughout the years. He turned to poetry at this time for solace, particularly Sara Teasdale. The year 1924 ends with two letters to Willie declaring his love.

Because the young man had been recruited for the Factory Management Course he was moved from spot to spot in the plant, some assignments lasting a week, others several weeks. In 1925 Forman enrolled in an accounting course at G.E. that involved home work. That and almost daily letters to his mother and Willie left him little free time. Still troubled by home-sickness and unhappy in his work, after much agonizing he asked for a transfer to "test" which in effect meant starting again.

He had become convinced that his interests lay in engineering rather than in manufacturing and the test course pointed its members toward design, application engineering and technical sales.

A young Mr. Craton left for the General Electric facility in Erie, a plant with 5000 employees, on January 10, 1926 and never looked back. The transfer brought him immediate satisfaction and pleasure in his work and began a lifetime career. He found Erie and its people interesting, began attending the Unitarian Church where he met and enjoyed knowing a number of young people. His early months there were spent in rented rooms but late in the year he rented an apartment at 1308 W 9th Street in preparation for his marriage to Willie.

Family Life

Forman Craton and Willie Flitschner were married January 27, 1927. He made his first trip for the company, the first of an endless number, in 1927. The year 1928 was a banner year for the young couple. A daughter named Barbara and always called Bab was born on August 28 at Hamot Hospital. His salary having been increased to $42.00 a week in February, they bought a secondhand, dearly beloved Dodge for $225. In late June Forman wrote the first paragraph of his first short story, in an endeavor to follow through on his interest in writing. The year 1928 was also the year that the Graf Zeppelin which had left Germany in October 13 arrived in New York on October 15. In November the Cratons voted for Herbert Hoover who won the presidency by a large electoral majority. His Democratic opponent was Al Smith.

On May 24, 1932 a new baby, Roger Phelps Craton, was born. As the depression hit bottom Mr. Craton's salary was cut to $1900 a year, his work week to 4 days and he felt lucky to still have a job.

The death of Willie's mother made 1935 a sad year for the family. Increasing responsibilities at GE as business improved kept Mr. Craton busy at the plant and frequently out of town. As his responsibilities increased the necessary and expected business entertaining increased keeping him away from home often during the evenings in Erie. He was out of town more frequently also and business entertaining often involved drinking and late nights.

The war years meant greater responsibility at the plant and long working hours for Mr. Craton and the restrictions felt by all families as rationing affected family eating habits and recreation, especially the use of automobiles.

For several years after the children were born Mr. Craton's mother either lived with the family or visited for long periods of time. His mother had become harassed by worry, fears and discontent

and no effort by Mr. Craton seemed to assuage these. This situation continued through out the thirties. On November 19, 1939 Mr. Craton wrote "all of this makes life at home unnatural, strained, unpleasant and nerve wracking."

Mr. Craton's frequent and long business trips made the responsibility for his mother especially difficult for his wife. It was January 1944 before the elder Mrs. Craton left the Craton house to reside at St. Margaret's Home with many misgivings on her part and Mr. Craton's.

His mother's death occurred on September 28, 1947 and an inheritance of about $20,000 from her made building a longed for new home possible in 1948.

Another crisis in their family life was the suicide of Willette Craton's father, "the Colonel", on April 10, 1946. Long widowed he had remarried at age 70, apparently not very successfully. He was also driven by financial worries. What estate there was went to the second wife with only the proceeds of a $1,000 insurance policy to Willette Craton, causing some feeling of resentment.

Graduation from university were important family occasions as were the children's marriages.

Thanksgiving was generally spent with Bab and Tom Moore and their family, Christmas with Roger and Joan and theirs.

Children and Grandchildren

A daughter named Barbara and always called Bab or Babbie was born on August 28, 1928 at Hamont Hospital. Her brother, Roger Phelps Craton was born on May 24, 1932.

Both children did well in school, received good grades, and were a source of pride and satisfaction with their behavior, appearance, and accomplishments. Bab wanted a year at Southern Seminary in Buena Vista, Virginia before entering college. Despite their concern about the expense the Cratons agreed because they feared she could not get all the necessary credits in the Erie public school. Her graduation from Southern Seminary was an important family occasion which involved visiting the Robeys and other relatives living in the area.

Bab left Erie in late September 1946 for her first year at Syracuse University. By 1949 she was a senior at Syracuse University and Roger was a senior at Strong Vincent High School and well-thought of as a young sailor at the Erie Yacht Club.

Bab graduated from college in June, 1950 and she and Tom Moore, an architectural student, were married in August. Since he had one more year for his degree in architecture she went to work in an office in Syracuse. Roger graduated from high school that year and entered the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1975.

The first grandchild, Elizabeth Forman Moore, was born on September 15, 1952. Her father Tom joined an architectural firm in Berea, Ohio where they lived for a time before moving to Brecksville, Ohio. A second grandchild, Peter Moore born in 1955 was followed by another girl, Margaret Joanna Moore, born October 2, 1957 and called Peggy.

Another Moore grandchild, Charles Andrew, born July 3, 1965 shortly became a cause of much

family concern and anxiety because of his failure to thrive and respond developmentally. By April 1970 he was placed in the Sunnyhaven Home in Columbus, Ohio. He was transferred to a state hospital in Breckville in the spring of 1973. Sunnyhaven felt he could no longer be helped there and he had become more difficult to manage. Mr. Craton never became reconciled to Charles' retardation or the fact that he was born to his adored daughter.

Peg Moore the youngest child was thinking about college during the annual Thanksgiving visit in 1974-she was interested in one with a strong art curriculum. Peter Moore was an increasingly excellent football player in high school, winning several awards. He planned to enter Wooster College in the fall, having graduated from high school in 1975 the same year Elizabeth graduated from Bowling Green University. She was attending classes at the Univ. of Georgia, working in the Admissions Office and living at 2511 Planthersville Road in Decatur.

Roger Craton at the University of Pennsylvania joined the fraternity to which his father and grandfather belonged. He was active in Masks and Wigs and also played lacrosse. He graduated with high honors in 1954 and married Joan Gibson the following November.

Roger and Joan Craton moved to Detroit, he to work in a bank and finish his M.A. degree at night.

By 1960 Roger was working for the Ford Motor Company. His first child, a boy named Lincoln after Joan's father, was born May 30, 1960. Cynthia, his second child was born on August 1, 1962. Both of these children attended private schools and lived in London for the several years during which Roger Craton worked for Ford in London.

By 1971 Roger had returned to Ford in Detroit, and had bought a large home in Bloomfield Village, Birmingham, Michigan. He had been appointed comptroller of Ford's North American Automotive Operations, a 30 million dollar a year business.

On July 5, 1980 Roger phoned his parents that he was leaving Ford to become chief finance officer with a seat on the board of directors of Chesebrough-Pond Corporation effective August 1, 1980. His new annual compensation was to be $300,000. Thus meant that the Roger Craton family would move to Greenwich, Connecticut in June 1981 when Cynthia Craton would graduate from high school.

A Thirty Eight Year Career At The General Electric Co.

The following account of Mr. Craton's career was written by him in November 1978 at the request of Milton Wise of the class of 1924 of Syracuse University, who was compiling a book on the surviving members of their class at the College of Applied Science.

"On July 7, 1924 I reported in Schenectady for General Electric's new Factory Management Course and thus began a rewarding GE career that was to span the next 38 years. However, a year on this course convinced me I was slanted more toward engineering than manufacturing. So I transferred to the "test" course, which pointed its members toward both design and application engineering as well as technical sales. It proved to be a good move.

Long fascinated by trains and discovering GE's deep involvement in rail transportation apparatus, I soon transferred to the Erie, Pa. plant where I finally headed traction motor test nights and later took locomotive test. The latter was an impossible dream come true, involving electric locomotive riding and operation on the 4-mile test track. In November 1926 I moved into railway control engineering at Erie to design circuitry for gasoline-electric cars and various types of electric-drive locomotives. Also I had an indoctrination course on traction motor design and application.

In 1930 the Lackawanna suburban electrification out of Hoboken was inaugurated. It included two 3,000-volt trolley-battery-diesel locomotives for transfer freight service between the Jersey City and Secaucus yards. I'd done the control engineering on these locomotives and helped put them into service, This included the thrill of operating the locomotive pulling a 105-car freight train up grade out of Jersey City, through the Bergen Hill tunnel and on to Secaucus, to me an incredible experience. This assignment was my first intimate exposure to railroading and years later I wrote an article about it which appeared in TRAINS Magazine.

In 1931 I moved from design into locomotive application engineering and commercial work, the two functions being combined at Erie. However we were fast sinking into the abyss of the Depression. By 1932 the only active job we had was apparatus for the Pennsylvania Railroad electrification; if you weren't fortunate enough to be working on that, and I wasn't, it was touch and go whether you'd be short-timed or dismissed. I got down to four days a week and 157 per month with a wife and two children to support but I hung onto my job. That was the bottom. In 1933 things began to improve slowly, I was assigned the New Haven Railroad commercial work at Erie. The New Haven was progressive and interested in dieselization as well as possibly extending their electrification to Boston. We made extensive diesel-switcher studies culminated by an initial order for ten units. This was followed in 1937 by an order for six 3,600-hp 216-ton 11,000/600-volt AC/DC passenger locomotives for operation into Grand Central. On September 21, 1938 while running freight tests on these, we found ourselves in the middle of the hurricane of that date, another experience I wrote about for TRAINS.

In the late 1930s GE and American Locomotive Co. were partners in the diesel business; they built 100 tons and up using our equipment and we anything below 100. I was assigned promotion of our diesels with the New England railroads. This meant extensive traveling involving memorable episodes. My experiences on the Boston & Maine, where we had a demonstrator, were particularly noteworthy and were covered by a TRAINS article entitled "Joy & Pain on the Boston & Maine."

In 1940 I became manager of Industrial Haulage at Erie which had responsibility for the GE mining and industrial locomotive business, about to come on strong with World War II in the immediate offing. This was my first managerial job. I became active in the Mining & Industrial Electric Locomotive Section of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association and was chairman of the section. Also I spent much of 1942 in Washington as a dollar-a-year man on the War Production Board and was responsible for scheduling the manufacture of all locomotives in the U.S. below 100-tons; these included both diesel and steam as well as the military requirements. I made a 2-month trip to Hawaii in early 1945 to appraise the postwar market for diesels in the sugar industry.

In 1945 I became assistant general sales manager and in 1947 general sales manager of GE's locomotive and transportation equipment business. The product line included electric-drive locomotives of all types and sizes, electrical propulsion equipments sold to other builders for locomotives, subway and rapid-transit cars, trolley cars and coaches, off-highway vehicles, and a large parts business. After the war we had a period of inflation and labor trouble including a 9-week strike which made pricing and shipping promises difficult. Also as 1950 approached we struggled to get our business up to $100,000,000 annually, which would keep about 5,000 employees busy at Erie. So it was a challenging and interesting time.

In the early 1950s due to rapid growth the Company was reorganizing, decentralizing and establishing new measurements. In 1953 a study team was formed to recommend how the Company's foreign operations could be blended smoothly into all this. On the team were four from international operations, four from domestic, and the chairman, an international man. On this team I represented the Company's heavy apparatus business. The nine of us holed up in a New York hotel for over a year on this when we weren't traveling around on interviews including a 3-week trip to Central and South America. It was one of the most fascinating of my business experiences.

After this I returned to my marketing job at Erie, the position having been upgraded slightly from "sales" to "marketing" in the reorganization. In 1956 I spent three months taking the Company's Advanced Management Course. Back in Erie again, I headed a team to study the reorganization of our own business. we spent four months on this and presented our report in May 1957. We recommended the business be split up into three decentralized sections: 1) Locomotives; 2) Equipments; 3) Parts sales. Our recommendations were adopted and the department reorganized. I became general manager of the equipment business, a position I held until my retirement o July 1, 1962 at age 60.

Equipment doesn't sound as glamorous as locomotives but actually is more so. We'd adapted our locomotive propulsion apparatus to oil-well drilling which put us into that business; I've visited an oil-well drilling platform 60 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. With expansion of open-pit mining and the proliferation of heavy off-highway vehicles, our motorized-wheel business was booming. Mass transit was promising an even greater future. Also we supplied electrical equipments to Alco and Baldwin as well as our own associates in the Erie Plant. These lines along with parts kept some 2,500 people busy in our Equipment Section."

Finances

It took 17 years thanks to his early career change and the depression for Mr. Craton's salary to reach %5,000. The next step up meant that he was eligible to join Elfun, an investment fund for G.E. managers and executives.

With the end of the depression and the increasing industrial activity caused by war production Mr. Craton's salary had risen to $6,700 a year. Overtime and extra compensation brought this to $8,500. By November 1946 several increases had raised his base salary to $9,000 and following a long strike at the plant this figure was raised to $9,720. A March 13, 1946 journal entry noted that Mr. Craton's income tax for 1945 was $1,800 -- "more than he used to make". One of the satisfactions of these increases was the purchase of a small boat that added a great deal to the family's recreation.

Mr. Craton became eligible for the GE stock plan in 1953 and was authorized to purchase 900 shares of company stock over the next 10 years at $71.00 a share. His stock in GE enabled him to retire at age 60 instead of 65. He noted that the 2500 shares he owned in 1965 for which he had paid about $60,000 over the years had a market value of $300,000. It was the income from the Elfun trusts and the dividends from G.E. stock, substantial contributions to his retirement income, that made the extensive travel during his early retirement years possible.

Despite the post-war salary increases and his investment income that appeared to keep pace with the inflation of those years, inflation was an abiding concern for Mr. Craton.

Leisure Time

As a young single man much of Mr. Craton's social life revolved around the Unitarian Church. He enjoyed the young people he met at church-related social affairs and found them interesting.

After their marriage the Cratons played bridge with friends, occasionally played poker for small stakes, went to movies, and attended lectures and concerts at Chautauqua during the season. They entertained and were entertained by friends for cocktails and dinner and made weekend visits to friends living out of town. Swimming, walking the beach and picnics at Peninsula, a local recreation area, were important when the children were young. They were regular television viewers with a number of favorite programs. The Watergate hearings were watched daily during the second Nixon administration and all space shots were followed with interest. The week-end sports programs were watched with anticipation and pleasure. Mr. Craton's interest in opera is well-documented and he was a regular radio and television fan of the Metropolitan Opera performances. He also bought and played frequently recorded arias.

A friendship with the Brightmans developed into a more active social life than usual but this subsided after the Brightmans left Erie.

Recreation during the years from 1945 to 1964 was centered in the Yacht Club which Mr. Craton joined when he bought a small boat. Boating then became a major recreational activity. Young Roger quickly became an excellent sailor, participating in sail boat races with skill and enthusiasm. The first boat was replaced by a larger but still modest one. Mr. Craton's interest eventually resulted in his being elected commodore of the Erie Yacht Club, a highly prized distinction. The Cratons participated in all of the Yacht Club activities, using it for dinner, dancing, and special occasions, even after Mr. Craton sold his boat.

Mrs. Craton joined a local book club in 1928 and was still a member in 1982.

Most of the home repair and upkeep was done by Mr. Craton, a careful and persistent workman who was proud of his results. He was indefatigable in searching for parts and pleased to avoid what he considered outrageous charges, particularly by plumbers. Mrs. Craton did most of the gardening but he helped with the heavy work.

During periods when Mr. Craton was keeping a diary on a daily or weekly basis much of his spare time was devoted to writing it. He also spent many hours in creative writing in an effort to get published and for a brief period in drawing cartoons for possible publication.

Mr. Craton became an avid photographer and gave it special emphasis after the children were born and during vacations. He also used a movie camera for some occasions.

During his retirement years Mr. Craton was a regular attendant at the YMCA Friday speakers luncheon, lunched with a friend on a weekly basis and he and Willie enjoyed frequent dinners out with the Reeds and the Ogdens, friends of long-standing.

For a period of years immediately following retirement Mr. Craton was actively engaged in fundraising for the United charities campaign, particularly among G.E. retirees and played a major role in a capital fund drive for the Booker T. Washington YMCA.

Religious Life

As a small child Mr. Craton went to Sunday School at the May Memorial Unitarian Church in Syracuse where the minister was the Reverend John H. Applebee. After his father's death when he was twelve years old he went to the church service with his mother. In his teens he also belonged to the Young People's Religious Union. He was one of two delegates from May Memorial selected to attend the Unitarian Laymen's Third Annual Institute at Star Island, Isles of Shoal, off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 28 - August 11, 1923 where he first met and fell in love with Willette, his wife.

In Schenectady as a young man on his first job Mr. Craton attended All Souls Unitarian Church. He liked the people and the minister, the Reverend Ernest Caldecott, very much and depended heavily on the church for his religious and social life during a period of severe loneliness and homesickness. He began however to have some problems with Unitarianism. Although he enjoyed the sermons as lectures he found them lacking in spirituality. During this period Mr. Craton was also unhappy with the factory management course at General Electric. He felt he was not suited to the manufacturing part of the General Electric Co. although he was much impressed by the vast scope of the company. He finally worked out a transfer from factory management to "test" that resulted in a transfer from Schenectady to Erie, PA and the real beginning of a satisfying career in GE.

The Unitarian church in Erie was neither as large nor as socially well-connected as that in Schenectady but the people were hospitable and the Reverend Charles Judson Dutton an interesting minister. Despite his concerns about the lack of spirituality he continued to attend the church until the children were ready for Sunday School. Both Cratons felt that the children needed a different Sunday School for their religious initiation.

The Cratons tried St Paul's Episcopal for a time and then the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in the early 40's. There they remained first they attended without joining the church. His attendance was spotty because he was overwhelmed with work and travel. Later the yacht club activity took up the weekends and attendance dropped to Christmas and Easter. The Cratons finally joined the Presbyterian Church because they wanted Bab and Tom Moore to be married there. His retirement did not get Mr. Craton to resume regular attendance but Mrs. Craton was a faithful volunteer in the church library for many years.

Health

Mr. Craton's health as a child seems to have been unexceptional. There were coughs, colds, upper respiratory complaints and several of the common childhood diseases but nothing out of the ordinary.

As a young man he developed an intermittent bladder problem that medication helped some and that seemed to be more nuisance than serious. This was life-long. There was also a chronic urethritis that he noted with concern. While he recorded a number of minor ailments in his journal he lost little or no time from work. The first hospitalization was for an appendectomy in 1947. Mr. Craton's care and concern about his own health carried over to his wife and children. He seemed excessively upset about the children's routine childhood illnesses.

Once Mr. Craton reached the management level at the Corporation he made annual visits to the Mayo Clinic for physical examinations paid for by the company. These were continued for many years after his retirement when Mrs. Craton became a Mayo patient also. The Clinic findings for both of the Cratons are recorded in some detail.

Having disregarded a doctor's advice about a car trip to Florida in 1969 Mr. Craton spent several weeks hospitalized there and several more recovering enough to return to Erie. A detached retina in the summer of 1970 resulted in hospitalization, surgery and a long period wrestling with double vision. Much dreaded prostate surgery occurred in 1971 successfully.

The annual visit to the Mayo Clinic in 1973 brought a diagnosis of angina pectoris, use of nitroglycerine, orders to cut his drinking to one drink a day, to cut down on sweets and to walk every day.

Chronic emphysema was beginning to interfere with Mr. Craton's physical activity and to diminish his pleasure in those he pursued.

Another detached retina meant another hospitalization and recovery period. This was followed by ambulatory surgery for a fracture of a hand. A severe bronchitis took Mr. Craton back to Hamot Hospital again in the first week of February. By this time Mr. Craton was almost living the life of an invalid whose physical condition dictated his activity or lack of it. In May of 1982 there was another hospitalization for tests all of which negative. Following the second retina surgery Mr. Craton in his words "developed a post-operative nervous condition that lasted for months, that required doctoring, extensive use of Valium...For months I had to fight depression, apprehension and the jitters. I had no appetite and lost perhaps as much as twenty pounds". (Special note at beginning of Diary for the year 1978)

During his working and retirement years there were a number of dental problems that seemed to be exacerbated by his objections to the dentist's charges. He continued with the same dentist year after year and also continued complaining about him.

Mr. Craton's Writing

Mr. Craton had interests from a very young age in writing and in drawing cartoons. The interest in writing was life-long, that in cartoons short-lived. Because of the necessity to be practical about earning a living for himself and his mother, Mr. Craton put aside his interest in writing and cartoons and majored in mechanical engineering. Throughout his life however he continued to try to write for publication and document his life whenever he could find the time to do so. In June 1927 for example, six months after his marriage he wrote his first short story. In 1934 after a vacation trip to Canada he tried another short story. The memoir itself is testament to his writing interest. The diary sometimes abandoned for lack of time was always returned to -- once after a lapse of 27 years. This gap was filled during his retirement years when he also wrote extensively on particular periods of his life or special activities such as boating.

A number of statements scattered throughout the memoirs indicate that regular entries were important to him, helped him cope with problems and enhanced his enjoyment of his good times.

Mr. Craton also tried persistently when he could find the time to write and rewrite for publication. While he had no success with his interest in short-story writing and none with the cartoons he submitted to Collier and the Saturday Evening Post for publication, he did succeed with several articles about trains and railroads. An article about diesel electric locomotives in industry resulted in a check for $35.00 and publication in the magazine Purchasing in 1944. Another milestone was the publication in Steel of an article for which he was paid $55.00.

Yankee, a magazine with a circulation of about 350,000 accepted and paid $250 for an article entitled "Candle Light" that was based on visits to the Isles of Shoals when Mr. Craton was a young man. Trains also accepted a railroading article "Joy and Pain on the Boston and Maine" for which it paid $45.00 and in December 1970 published "Tarzan Jr." and paid $125.00 for it. The published articles were a source of pride and satisfaction.

Travel

Travel was an important part of Mr. Craton's life. His business trips were frequent and often lengthy, taking him away from wife and family. They included time spent in Hawaii, Australia, Mexico and Venezuela on G.E. business.

Family travel included frequent trips of short duration to visit family or friends, annual trips to the Mayo Clinic combined with visits to family or friends, and trips to Buena Vista, Virginia where cousins, the Robeys lived and operated Southern Seminary, a girls preparatory school. The earliest vacation trip of note was in 1931 to Colorado. This was by car, driving an average 300 miles per day for a total mileage of 3,940 miles. Gasoline averaged 15¢ a gallon, oil 25¢ a quart. There was a trip to Canada in 1933, a Great Lakes Cruise in 1936.

During the war Mr. Craton was sales manager for locomotives for industry, the military, the Maritime Commission and underground mining. Because G.E. thought there was a potential post-war market in Hawaii, particularly in the sugar fields Mr. Craton was sent there while wartime travel restrictions were still in effect to determine the design of a standard diesel electric unit for use in Hawaii.

This trip began a life long love affair with the islands that resulted in seven more trips of several months each with Mrs. Craton after he retired.

During those seven years the Cratons spent two or three of the worst months of the Erie winter in Hawaii.

Mr. Craton's retirement at age 60 meant a real emphasis on travel that started with a nine week trip to Europe in 1962 and included Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Italy and was followed by several months in Florida in early 1963. In 1964 there was a South Sea Island cruise followed by several months in Hawaii, in 1966 a trip of 80 days around the world and in 1967 a return to Europe, with close friends, Barbara and Charles Reed. 1968 saw a trip to the North Cape, the Scandinavian countries, Russia and Ireland.

A trip to Florida in 1969 was an unfortunate one. Mr. Craton spent much of it in hospital and recovering from a back problem. There was a return to Hawaii in 1971 but a planned return in 1972 had to be cancelled because a bleeding intestinal tract sent Mr. Craton into the hospital again. Several months were required for recuperation.

In June 1972 the Cratons returned to Canada, this time to Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper and Vancouver, and again in January 1973 returned to Kappa Sands, Kauai, Hawaii where they spent Erie's worst winter months each year from 1973 through 1977.

A second detached retina for Mr. Craton prevented any winter travel in 1978 but by June of 1978 the Cratons were able to visit Joan and Roger Craton who by then were living outside London. It was a memorable trip with a number of short trips beyond the London area.

Mid March of 1979 took the Cratons on a trip to the American south. Their first stop was to see their great-grandchild Carrie, and then on to Charleston, Savannah, Hilton Head and Jekyll Island, where they visited their friends the Bauschards. Mr. Craton did not enjoy much of this trip, would have preferred being home but realized that his wife needed both a change and less work and more rest than she got at home. They cut the trip short by a week and returned home.

The last recorded trips were to see Joan and Roger and their new home in Connecticut in late March and Roger's summer place in Good Hart in July 1982.

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This memoir is the autobiography of a man whose entire career from college graduation to retirement was spent working in one of the giants of American industry, the General Electric Company. His life spanned more than three quarters of the twentieth century and the detail in which it has been recorded provides much scattered historical, cultural, social and economic information about the period.

It is part contemporaneous diary written on a daily or weekly basis, part a record of chronological periods of Mr. Craton's life reconstructed from notes, scattered diary entries, sketches, photographs and memory and part a record of specific experiences, for example the family's boating years, Mr. Craton's time at the War Production Board, his religious life. Mr. Craton referred to it as "my 40-volume autobiography-----a continuous story of my life since birth. I estimate there are at least three million words in this record-----" in a two page autobiographical account written November 28, 1978 for Milton Wise, a former classmate.

References to Mr. Craton's work at G.E. appear in the daily and weekly diary entries but are in separate sections in the record of Mr. Craton's life that was written after his retirement. The story of those years is divided into two sections, one relating to home, family and friends and another to his career at G.E. These sections on his work contain a significant amount of information on the company's transportation interests and the manufacture and merchandising of locomotives and locomotives parts as well as descriptions of Mr. Craton's colleagues.

The year 1942 spent in Washington as a dollar-a-year man at the War Production Board and his account of his trips to Washington immediately before and immediately afterwards paint an interesting picture of war-time Washington, its hotels, restaurants, and cocktail lounges and the social life of which they were a part. They also give some indication of a Federal government rapidly expanding to meet war-time needs at home and abroad.

Major current events occurring during Mr. Craton's lifetime are also noted. They begin with the arrival of the Graf Zeppelin in New York In October 1928; the election of Herbert Hoover as president in that year as well as subsequent presidential elections were recorded as were the depression of the thirties and its effect on family life, and World War II. Developments in the space program and the landing of the astronauts on the moon were watched on television and noted in the memoirs.

The record is replete with Mr. Craton's disapproval of labor unions and their activities and his bias about Jews and Blacks, and reference to social classes that he considered his inferiors. Entries throughout the years from childhood on describe friends, acquaintances and fellow workers in minute detail. They also describe every woman with a pretty face or good figure noticed on the street, in a store, restaurant or hotel and document the drinking that was one aspect of recreational life at the time among some groups.

Looking back on the period from 1949 to 1963 from the vantage point of 1977 Mr. Craton divided it into 3 periods. In the one he entitled "Emancipation" there is a lengthy description of their friendship with the Brightmans, biographical details of the members of the Dinner Club, a detailed account of Bab's wedding and the birth of the first grandchild. This record of friends, family and activities is heavily illustrated with photographs and clippings.

Numerous references to the family's daily living and travel expenses show the changes that occurred in the price level over the years and caused Mr. Craton major concern about inflation.

The memoirs are profusely illustrated with photographs of family, friends and places visited as well as with magazine pictures, menus, programs, and other mementos.

Much of the collection is typed on 8-1/2 by 5 inch notebook sheets. Much is handwritten in a small, neat script. Photographs are labeled.

The Container List indicates by folder whether the contents are diary or memoirs written after the fact.

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Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

Portions of the collection remain unprocessed. See the arrangement note for updates about processing status. Please contact the Archives Center prior to scheduling a research appointment to access the collection.

As a preservation measure, researchers must view the reference access copies of the bound invention notebooks (Volume A-Volume 112) in Series 1. The pocket notebooks and scratch pads are available for research use.

Social Security numbers are present and have been rendered unreadable and redacted. Researchers may use the photocopies in the collection.

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content: Lemelson, Jerome H., 1923-1997

content: Jerome H. Lemelson Papers

indexedContent: Jerome H. Lemelson Papers / Series 5: Toy-Related Files (partially processed)

content: Box 156, Folder 81

indexedContent: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Text


title: E. Martin brandy

label: Collection Designer

content: Nesbitt, Saul, 1920-1993

indexedContent: Nesbitt, Saul

content: Saul Nesbitt Papers

indexedContent: Saul Nesbitt Papers

content: Saul Nesbitt Papers / Series 5: Photographic Materials / 5.2: Transparencies of Package Designs / 5.2.5: Products beginning with E

content: undated

content: Box 9

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

indexedContent: Negatives

content: Saul Nesbitt Papers, 1951-1984, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Saul Nesbitt Papers

unittitle: Photographic Materials

unittitle: Transparencies of Package Designs

unittitle: Products beginning with E

unittitle: E. Martin brandy

title: E. Martin brandy